Nintendo of Japan has launched a new promotion that packages in a ‘recommended’ game download when customers buy a new 3DS XL. The first recommended titles are Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Level 5’s Yo-kai Watch.

Super Smash Bros. will feature an Animal Crossing: New Leaf assist trophy in the form of the game’s Isabelle. The news was announced by director Masahiro Sakurai today, via Siliconera. Maybe she will be shown during the Super Smash Bros-centric Nintendo Direct next Tuesday, April 8.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf has sold 7.38 million copies worldwide, according to series creator Katsuya Eguchi speaking at a New Leaf postmortem at GDC 2014. Eguchi also said during his talk 3DS is now in 42.74 million homes worldwide. Thanks, Joystiq.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf players who use the SpotPass feature will receive a free Tree-Stump Chair for the game from now until December 31. To receive the gift, players will need to head to the in-game Post Office on Main Street and speak with either Pelly or Phyllis. The chair is only available until the […]

Nintendo has followed up their financial results briefing from earlier in the week with some “supplementary information,” and among it all is lifetime sales numbers for some first-party 3DS games that have been killin’ it. Animal Crossing: New Leaf leads the pack with 6.35 million sold.

The Last of Us has entered the UK charts at first this week, after receiving a raft of near-perfect scores across the board at review. Twee 3DS sandbox romp Animal Crossing: New Leaf has entered at second place.